About The Word Deficient
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Deficient
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What's The Definition Of Deficient?
[adj] inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
[adj] falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing" [adj] of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds" Synonyms | Synonyms for Deficient: depleted | inadequate | inferior | insufficient | lacking(p) | lean | light | low | nonstandard | poor | scant(p) | scarce | short | shy(p) | skimpy | substandard | too little | wanting(p) Related Terms | Find terms related to Deficient: adulterated | amiss | arrested | bad | base | blemished | botched | bungling | callow | clumsy | damaged | defective | embryonic | erroneous | failing | fallible | faulty | flawed | found wanting | half-assed | haphazard | hit-and-miss | hit-or-miss | hypoplastic | immature | impaired | imperfect | imprecise | impure | in arrear | in arrears | in default | in short supply | in want of | inaccurate | inadequate | incompetent | incomplete | inexact | infant | inferior | infrequent | injured | insufficient | lacking | little | makeshift | maladroit | marred | mean | mediocre | messy | minus | missing | mixed | needing | not comparable | not enough | not in it | not perfect | off | out of it | part | partial | patchy | petty | promiscuous | rare | scant | scanty | scarce | scrappy | scrimpy | shabby | short | short of | shy | sketchy | skimpy | slipshod | slipshoddy | sloppy | slovenly | sluttish | small | too little | trivial | uncommon | underdeveloped | undeveloped | unequal to | uneven | unfinished | unperfected | unqualified | unreached | unsatisfactory | unsatisfying | unskillful | unsound | unsufficing | unthorough | untidy | wanting See Also | meager | meagerly | meagre Deficient In Webster's Dictionary \De*fi"cient\, a. [L. deficiens, -entis, p. pr. of
deficere to be wanting. See {Defect}.]
Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a
requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective;
imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts;
deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.
The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety.
--Macaulay.
{Deficient number}. (Arith.) See under {Abundant}. --
{De*fi"cient-ly}, adv.
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